‘Official’ UK re-mix site
p2p news / p2pnet: A government-funded UK re-mix site has gone online to inspire people about music.
Soundjunction was created by Britain’s Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music to let people explore jazz, west African and western classical music to, “allow people to learn through listening, through creating, through discovery, rather a didactic written resource,” the BBC has Derek Richards, Associated Board project coordinator, saying.
Soundjunction has hours of audio and video footage online, as well as interactive articles which explain the histories of different kinds of music, the lives of musicians and how they were influenced and used in social and cultural contexts.
For example, “A griot is a major player in West African society. Traditionally, they are not just people who play kora, and other instruments, they’re also keepers the unwritten records of time, historians and advisors on a variety of issues. Not anyone can become a griot – there are particular families that sporn griot apprentices. And it takes years of training, learning, practice and travelling.
“Wali Cham talks about what it means to be a djele, another word for griot.”
Cool.
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See:-
BBC – Music site inspires remix culture, October 25, 2005
